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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-06-18
A STORY ABOUT GRANT.

Gen. w. w. Averill, the dashing
Union cavalry leader during the
war of the rebellion, is now sue
cessful business man in New York
city. He relates the following in
cident of his first meeting with Gen.
Grant. 1t was in 1857, when he
was ordered to St. Louis to join an
expedition across the plains to New
Mexico. While waiting for the ex
pedition to start he spent day
with Lieut.. Craig, who lived about
twelve miles out from st. Louis.
Seated on Lieut.. Craig's porch,
he saw solitary horseman riding
up the lane to the house. He wore
IA blue Ovcrcoat, such as worn by
private soldiers, and a black felt
hat, dingy and worn. In his hand
he carried blacksnake whip, which
he frequently applied to the pot
bellied mare he was riding, and
whose name and tail were full of
burs. The brownish, red face of
the man was covered with a stubby,
sandy beard. When he reached the
gate he halted, dismOunted, and,
fastening the beast to picket fence,
opened the gate and inquired for
Lieut.. Craig. The officer went down
to see him, and, after an earnest
conversation, the man mounted his
animal and rode away.
When Craig returned to the porch
he said:
"Averiii. would you believe that
man ever belonged to the army?"
YES" Averill replied, "he might
be an old soldier
"No." responded Craig, 81 mean
as an officer"
"He doesn't look it," said Averill
"Who is he?"
"That's old Ulysses Grant, of the
Fourth infantry" responded Craig
with an air of regret. He wanted
to be employed as commissary's
clerk to drive the beef cattle, take
charge of the supplies, and issue
rations in crossing the plains.
couldn't employ him."
"Craig and 1 have often won
dered," says Gen. Averill, "wha'
would have happened had U. S
Grant gone across the plains as
commissary clerk in 1857"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-06-18
THE LAST CHANCE.

The discovery of Last Chance
gulch, which resulted in the build
ing of Helena, NJ. t., rightfully
called the Queen City of the Rock
les, was quite as romantic and as
interesting as the discovery of the
famous Alder Gulch. In the spring
of 1864, the Kootenai stampede
from Alder Gulch took place.
Among the stampeders were four
miners named Rowan, Crab, Miller
and Stanley. They had gotten as
far north as the gate of the noun
tains, when they met prospecting
party under one Jim Coleman, just
coming back from the Kootenai
country, who brought the unwel-
come intelligence that the 'Koote-
mai was played out" There was
nothing left to do but to return to
the settlements or go back to Alder
Gulch. Descending into the valley,
they made camp OH the Little
Blackfoot, which they prospected,
finding cOlors everywhere. But as
they found nothing but colors the
four men followed down the gulch,
and descending into the valley of
the Prickly Pear and turning to
the right, camped for dinner on the
banks of Last Chance creek, where
Helena now stands. Next morning
before saddling up, preparatory to
moving along, two of the party
strolled to the creek side just to try
superficial pan of dirt. Scratch
ing a hole to the rim-rOck of a
small bar, to their surprise first
rate color was obtained but there
was nothing but colors, and SO they
decided to pack up and 60. North
ward they went, digging holes in
Vulnerable, up the Dearborn to the
headwaters of the Teton and Maria's
river, where they found an excel
lent crop of grizzlies, but none of
gold. Turning south again on their
way to Alder, one afternoon on or
about the middle of July, they
made camp again short distance
above their old camp on Last
Chance creek. To be exact, the
second camp was on the identical
spot where the First National Bank
of Helena now stands. That even
ing they put two goodsized holes
down to bedrock, one on each side
of the creek, and several fiat pieces
Of gold that would weigh quite Il
half dollar each were taken out.
There was no mistake about it..
The little nuggets fell into the ring
ing pan with music peculiarly
their own, sound extremely crate
full to the ears of the four wander
ers. Tie gravel prospected to the
top of the ground. and Last Chance
gulch took its place that night
among the great gold producers OF
the world. Helena is now located
at the head of Last Chance gulch.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-06-18

said, are too Independent to make
good soldiers except when they
are kept busy fighting or march
ing. The strict disciplene of camp
life gals them, and its laziness
brings out all their worst qualities.
The American-born citizen cannot
be lazy and good at the same time.
He inherits too much high pressure
activity that is bound to find a
vent somewhere.
A country boy from back of
Peeksville came in and wanted to
go for a soldier. They told him he
would get only $13 a month, his
clothes and board. All right-he
was satisfied. They told him he
would not be allowed to marry.
Very well; he didn't care. They
told him that he would be practi-
cally a servant for five years. He
was willing. And so he enlisted.
The lad was a fair type of certain
class who enlist. He had lived ali
his youth in the country, away
from town or village or city. With
the coming of manhood came a
great yearning for companionship.
For most men marriage comes to
fill this desire for human sympathy.
But it did not for him, and in sheer
desperation at his own loneliness
he thought of the army and its op-
portunities for companionship. He
walked into town, his mind made
up, and the government got one
more soldier.
The early spring always sees the
increase of enlistments. LabOrers,
mechanics and poor fellows out of
work are the applicants-especially
the latter class. They have been
trying hard all winter to get regu-
lar employment, and, finally dis
gusted with their non-success, they
turn to the army as a last resort.
So, too, the late emigrant, unable
to find the roasted fowls he has
heard of flying about the streets,
turns to the government and the
army for support. Here and there
domestic difficulties drive a man to
it. A shrewish wife sends many a
good man and true from shoulder
ing pick to shouldering musket.
Laziness and general shiftlesshess
help little. 1t seems an easy way
to keep life going to give ones self
up to the government in return for
food, clothing and a bed. Nearly
all barracks have fine libraries, and
the willing soldier can always get
a rudinentary education from camp
school. AS far as physical comfort
goes a soldier is perhaps better of
than the average laborer, though
he cannot choose his work or have
home of his own. He must herd
with others. But once soldier
always a soldier. Having served
for five years the discharged man
nearly always re-enlists. He is
untitled for anything else.
For thirty years the recruiting
Office i'm Hudson street has been
turning men iuto soldiers. Nobody
has vet discovered an Office that
can make men out Of soldiers.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-06-18
Dumblebees and Clover.

An Indiana farmer who told his
boyslto burn every bumblebees' nest
they found on the farm, and who
was complaining at the failure of
his clover seed crop, was surprised
when Maurice Thompson, the nat
uralist, said: "That is why your
clover seed fails you. Bumblebees
make your clover seed" 1t is a
fact that a strong nest of humble
bees in a big clover field is worth $40
to the owner, for these insects are
the chief agents in fertilizins the
blossoms, thereby insuring heavy
crop of seed. In Australia there
are no bumblebees of our kind, and
thew could not raise clover seed
there until they imported some.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-06-18
THE United States Supreme Court

The United States Supreme Court
has determined that the real invent
or of driven wells has such prop
erty in his invention as gives him,
or persons claiming under him, the
exclusive right to use it, and that
the re-issued patent recognizing
this state of the case is valid. Ev-
erybody, therefore, must accommo.
date himself to the law as thus laid
down. Many farmers and manu-
facturcrs may think it a hardship
that they cannot drive an iron pipe
into the ground and put a pump
on the top Of it, and so easily sup
plv themselves with an abundance
of water without paying something
to Nelson Green or his partners
and also that tribute must be paid
to those who have engrossed the
right to make fences rough with
barbs and rrickles; but the patent
laws allow this adaptation to the
schemes of monopoly of appliances
known to mankind for ages, and
there is no help for it.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-06-18
Good Joke on the Colonel.

AS Colonel Mooney was going
home the other day he saw the
wagon of a travelling photographer.
II will stop and have a picture
taken, just for fun," he mentally
remarked, entering the peripatctic
establishment.
"There," said the photog aphcr.
showing him a proof; Il think
this is a pretty good likeness" !,
The colonel looked at it, and
finally said, "It'll do"
When he got home he showed 1t
to his wife, and jokingly told her
it was a picture Of the "Wild Man
from Borneo" down in tho Bowery.
"You can't fool me-" said his
wife. examining the picture c1tA-
cally; "I,xe seen The Wild Man
from Borneo. and he ie not halt -
ugly ard Eighsfnl loc9irE &: thisl''
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-06-18

1875 was raised; thence to Day
ton, where $1S47 so footed up for
the fund on Carson river.
Through all the Washoe mines
it was sold. till $22 900 more was
placed to the credit of the Midas
sack of "Austin Sanitary Flour" "
Virginia City outdid all others,
contributing $l2,995 in coin and
considerable mining stock. To
Sacramento and San Francisco he
took the magic sack, selling it and
reselling it, till when he started
East $63, 900 stood to its account,
with three blocks Of lots in Austin
worth $1,000, and a house and lot
in Da yton.
Through all his journeying, he
bore his own expenses and the ex-
pressage of money, and raised In
coin $275, 900, in all nearly $3OO,OOO
A monument is soon to be fin
ished and dedicated in Rural ceme-
terry, Stockton, in honor of the hero
of the famed sanitary sack"
The Secretary of the Treasury
has written the committee that
there are ample provisions in the
statutes to authorize the free entry
of the statue. An effort is also be-
ing made to secure from Alcatraz
IA pieces of ordnance, to be used in
further ornamentation of the plat
in which the monument is to be
erected; and as Gen. Howard and
ex-Congressman Louttit have inter
ested themselves in the matter,
there is some hope of obtaining the
coveted cannon.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-06-18
An Afectionate SONS Appeal

A boy about sixteen years old re-
Gently came out from Pennsylvania
tn live in Dakota with an uncle.
The other day he wrote letter to
his father in which he said:
Father, l know you are some
thing of q politician, and l tell you
Won want to come out here. Some
of the awfullest meanest men you
ever saw get Offices here. Mebbe
Won couldn't get nothing here,
you're 80 alfred mean, but you'd
stand a heap better show than
where you're known. Your affcc'
tionAte son. AAS""':.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-06-18

A short time after the battle Of
Fredericksburg the soldiers observ-
ed a servant carrying big demi-
John into General Lees tent. Wis
ions of toddy fitted before the eyes
of the Generals staff. At 2 o'clock
General Lee walked out and with
a twinkle in his eye, remarked
"Perhaps you gentlemen would like
a glass of something?" The ver-
dict was unanimous. Everything
was arranged; the gentlemen drew
near; the cork was drawn and the
steward poured out-hutte milk.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-06-18
WORKING CLASSES A11ENnoN!

Win now prepared TO furnish all classes
sns .nployment at home. the whole of the
new ~ ~ !or their spare moments. Business
w .sht and profitable Persons of either
ey,,;ahy earn from 50 cents to $500 per
hr aII snd proportional sum by devot-
k,Is s. a.elf TIME 70 the business. Boys and
sho ~ ~ nearly az much as men. That all
ket ~ nis may send their address, and
huch :. business. We make this Offer. To
oas asna.e ass are not well satisfied we will send
epI) n.stt st 70 pay for the trouble of writing.
Gnocrlars snd outfit frsa, Address
SrIssoS s Co., Portland, Maine.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-06-18

The KEysroxx has long been acknowl-
edged to be the sole representative of tho
|aireat Upper Wood River and sawtooth
mining regions, and, located as 1t Is in tho
very heart of the most promising mining
country on the face of the earth. and ieav-
ing nothing undone to present its readers
complete synopsis Of all mining news anu
Developments, as well as matters Of local
importance in the growth Of Ketchum, the
future metropolis OF Idaho, it is an invalua-
bic guide for capital and informant to the
settler of every craft and position. Sub
scribe for il, read it. and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-06-18

' ~Payable in advance
,;.;oe rates furnishd on application
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-06-18
Attention, Mine Owners!
Wanted,
10000 TONS OF ORE.

TO be delivered at the Smelling
;, FORKS Of the Philadelphia and
'aaho NJ & S. Co, Ketchum, Idaho,
a"u Tor which ! guarantee to pay
III cash the highest market rates.
Tor iull particulars call at the
'''s' National Bank, Ketchum.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-16
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scturers. " mon
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beautifui t6osa i,nro oN''H rare anu
art s,udvs inst ronnivod ie y. , ,tu. or
Drug Store. The stylesand tnis arc
of the latest production. "
Tbe Waco pooIr,,a,a D
q dnsirahIo nr%an ,;9,ate i'Noua"eo
nonod that =, u-iii 1'n ,, ''.oi' auE II -
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rori1,,o. than -" mVru ~ NV" 49,
in such iustamcos ~ ,toso .a,,i,,
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tor ,hn nnni,,rou, '"''70 " ~ '' O'''V'
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mas mast Is RECEIVING shlpiheul
u iIiNcferci ana Iloiiahu herrihg' lie
oali'eS IuIi genera STOCK Oh Eroce-
'l's ana Irouuee' Also me Iile I'll
t.sar7 N'" tobacco. Noou9 ue''Nefcd
''Co "oU" lhU"'"'y o"7loHl''e 80
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-16
uorND ABOUT TOWN.

= ~ f.. ..,,,,
H. C. U'o'" ~ w. ,o ~ .
Waco steam laun'r! Is tno oes''
Go TO the waco steam L'uhurN'
New mince meat at Is. a. Lutte ~
cos.
Best cup of cohce at the Silver
Moon
The isdles drug store Morrlsoh,
Risher co.
Best meal in Waco st the silver
Moon
See "D,ck' Green and get nice
huggl uud horse.
Sail Enamel Powder at Morrison,
E,-hcr ~ cos. new drug store
1uciest porterhouse steaks IN Waco
AT the~ilyer Moon.
Tbulbtr bird seed ~ Morrison.
f..hcr X COS. new drug store.
r,ra hack or a rio of any KIND see
Dick Green
,rer recorders court had no cases
before 10 yesterday morning.
Eut one OF Maytield's new houses.
Be-i water in Waco. Price $500.
Dr. IL. l.. Munroe, dentist ~ Aus
tin ave oct. seventh and LAghth
Maylieid will sell you uuredccmed
watches aud Jewolry at hall price.
McAIlister's hooking bird TODD at
Morrison, FISHER " Cos. new drug
store.
For the best makes in packet
knives and razors 90 TO llorsiull "
Camcron's.
The commissioners court was
wrosfliug with the bridge problem
Yesterday.
PyerNthinr in fine toilet goods at
Morrison, FISHER Co.'S. new drug
store.
carry full line of I,ezellc. DALEY
Il Company's toilet goods. j. f..
Sears.
Sims improved complexion waters
Morrison, Risher ~ Cos. new drug
sore.
Elegant oxidized silver vinagrettes
al Morrison, FISCHER Il Co.'S, New
Drno Store.
INA no,ors Of Tur Ev,,,yry ot
flee Mt 20 cents a hundred or Si.5o a
n,,a,1
'"UO7"n''
,o',ieS' Nv ~ ''' tJ
IN " a.W' a. -',o' ''7''0' N W -
W.
u'' .,''o W '''C,,' Gi'ioi ICE "u'
s,nro % f''''' VI -
,....,
MtA"'stef DIrd SEED at Morrison,
'',' " w . ~" UiuS ''o'
'IeSn assortment OF pam ana
I 5aH,l ,." C anu plsctllts at H. a.
Ll..ic " Co's'
, mn''9 9i hl' sizes ana styles at Nor
''oH' ''Siior ~ 90 ne" urug store.
me demand Increases tor Maddino'
Mosquito Mixture. Manufactured bv
-" Inns " 90
The handsomest sachet packets
ust received at Morrison, l'sher n
Cos. new drug store.
~ complete stock OF homeopathic
Ineuiclhes always on hand at Colgin's
square drugstore.
Complicated watch repairino snnc
laity at y. -. Leslies. Experience and
sklII combined. Moderate charges.
Justices Sleeper and Makeig were
permitted to rest from their labors
Yesterday, no cases having been tried.
Sc ad in cheap column of Building
association store tor sale, a good
chance for investment is offered.
Artist students will find at the
LION DRUG STORE very full and
complete line of everything they
need.
There are lwenty-seven bright.
sparkling, beautiful songs in Rics's
B autiful Evangeline, at the Garland
Friday night.
Full and complete line OF DR.. Ed
ward Il. Squibbs' prescriptions AT
Morrison, fischer e Co.'S. new drug
store.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-16

Levine Brothers for Burt's, CoX'4
Stribiey's, Cousins, Dodge's and Ben.
nett Il Barnard's shoes.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-16

New catch msckerel in pals st |
A. Little Il Co.'S.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-16

Our entire stock of cloaks is offer
ed at unheard of low prices.
Levine Bros.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-16

Ladies will always find large as
sortment of perfumes and toilet ar
{ .cles at w. A. Williamson e. Co.'S.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-16
Ladies shoes

Oysters at Daughtrey's,
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-16

Dyspepsia
WAS trpIlilIt,l .
lrssiles- hlli 81
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-02
The Need of Patience.

If it is true that for many only little
alienation is possible, little more justice, a
little better apportionment of such good as
they can comprehend, it is also true that
something better is within the reach of all
How then shall we define it, and what posi-
bility of alteration for either lives or con-
ditions lies before us' Nothing that can be of
instant growth and here lies the chief dis
enlargement, since, as a people, we demand
instantaneousness, and would have seed,
flower and fruit at the same moment. Adj
NIT patience, capacity to wait and TO work
while waiting as the first term of the equation
and the rest arrange themselves
For the greater part of social reformers Co
operation has stood as the initial and most es-
sential step as the fruit that could be pIucked
full grown, and experience in England would
seem to have demonstrated the belief as true
1t is the American inability to wait that has
proved it untrue for us, and until very lately
made failure our only record; but there is a
deeper reason than a merely temperamental
one. The abolition of the apprentice system
brough about by the greed of master and
men alike, has abolished trai,ing and slow
steady preparation for any trade. An Ameri-
can has been regarded as quick enough and
keen enough to take in the essential features
of calling, as it were, at glance, and ap-
premiership has been taken as practically an
insult to national intelligence Law has kept
pace with such conviction, and thus the door
has been shut in the face of all learners. and
foreigners have supplied our skilled workmen
and worIlwOmen. The groundwork of any
better order lies, if not in a retsrn TO the ap-
prentice system, then in training from the
beginning which viii give to eye and hand
the utmost power of which they are capable
Helen Campbell in New York Tribune.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-02

\ grave old man aud maiden fair
Walked together at early morn;
The thrushes up in the clear, cool ar
sang 70 the farmer planting MS corn.
And o. how sweet was the fresh turned nlouhn'
And 0 how fair were the budding trees.
For daisy-s silver and daffodil's gold
We're fun Of the happy honey bees.
sAh look, there's an empty nest, SO she said
And I wonder where sings the last year
birds.'
Then the old man quickly raised his head
Though scarcely he noted her mUslng WORDS
He tore the nest from the swayIng tree,
He flung 10 the winds its moss and hay,
And said: When an empty nest you see
Be sure that you throw it far away
But Why" she asked, with q sorrowing face
why may not the pretty home abideE'
because" he answered. '' twill be place
In which the worm and the slug viii hide.
Last year twas fair enough ia its way
It was fun Of love and merry with song;
But days that are gone must not spoil to-day,
Nor dead joys do the living joys wrong
The maiden heard with thoughtful face
Her first false love had gone far away
And she thought: Is my heart become place
For anger and grief and hate to stayf
Down heart. with thy sad, fOrsaken nest
Fling far thy selfish and idle pain,
The love that is ours is always the best
And she went with a smile to her work again
Mary A Barr in Harper's Magazine.